{"id":572701,"date":"2026-03-29T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:50:14","slug":"max-verstappen-hilariously-waves-at-f1-rival-after-japan-overtake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572701\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen hilariously waves at F1 rival after Japan overtake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen took time to hilariously wave at Alpine driver Pierre Gasly as the latter overtook the Red Bull driver during the Japanese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Gasly and Verstappen spent much of the race battling for seventh place, with the Alpine driver coming out on top.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the Frenchman&#8217;s third straight top-10 finish as he continued Alpine&#8217;s strong start to the year.<\/p>\n<p>For Verstappen, however, it was a frustrating race as the Dutchman continues to be unhappy with the new regulations, which place heavy emphasis on energy recovery and deployment.<\/p>\n<p>During the grand prix, Gasly powered past Verstappen on the start\/finish straight when Verstappen ran out of battery.<\/p>\n<p>In a funny moment, Verstappen then raised his hand to wave at Gasly as the 30-year-old sailed by for position.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the incident below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen took time to hilariously wave at Alpine driver Pierre Gasly as the latter overtook the Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-572701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}